Small-scale Gold Mining in the Puyango River Basin,Southern Ecuador: A Study of Environmental Impacts andHuman Exposures
- 19 October 2005
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Ecohealth
- Vol. 2 (4), 323-332
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-005-8462-4
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